Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-02-03 | Page 12 | Cities Are Urged to Buy Material Now

CITIES ARE URGED TO BUY MATERIAL NOW Plan Is to Give All Assistance Assist-ance Possible to Manufacturing Manufac-turing Concerns. "Buy It Now" is the slogan of a let- 1 ter received yesterday by Mayor Park from C. B. Rose waiter, chairman of the "Buy It Now" campaign committee, with headquarters at Omaha and branch headquarters head-quarters at several other cities throughout through-out the United States. The communication urges that the mayor use his influence to speed the letting of contracts, which involve material ma-terial that may be used in constructing construct-ing public Improvements in Salt Lake during 1915. The letter announces that similar letters have been sent to the mayors of the leading cities of the United States and that the movement has the hearty indorsement of President Woodrow Wilson. In part the letter says: While the campaign is geheral in character, it is particularly directed to the farmers of the United States, who are more prosperous today than they have ever been in their history. his-tory. Such a satisfactory condition is not true of the business men of the UnKe-J States. We are attempting attempt-ing to get the farmers to pass some of the prosperity which they enjoy, to the business men of the United States. We- feel that another great ' im- petus can be obtained by the concerted con-certed action of the ' cities of the United States. The , budget for iyi5 having been passed, It seems entirely entire-ly possible that municipal expenditures expendi-tures can be constructed now instead in-stead of waiting. . as is frequently the case, until the eleventh hour. Mayor Park said yesterday that he would lay the communication before the members of the city commission today and that if they were . of the same opinion as he was whatever possible action ac-tion could be taken by the city to fur- 1 ther the movement would be taken at once.